Planning, Design & Access Statement
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PLANNING, DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT Pencnwc East, Llandissilio November 2020 T: 029 2073 2652 T: 01792 480535 Cardiff Swansea E: [email protected] W: www.asbriplanning.co.uk PROJECT SUMMARY PENCNWC EAST, LLANDISSILIO Description of development: Proposed demolition of existing buildings and residential redevelopment and associated works Location: Pencnwc East, Llandissilio, Clynderwen Date: November 2020 Asbri Project ref: 20.300 Client: Wales and West Housing Association STATEMENT A C CE S S & DE S I G N Asbri Planning Ltd Prepared by Approved by Unit 9 Oak Tree Court Mulberry Drive Geraint Jones Dylan Green Cardiff Gate Business Park Name Cardiff Planner Senior Planner CF23 8RS T: 029 2073 2652 Date November 2020 November 2020 E: [email protected] W: asbriplanning.co.uk Revision N O VE M BE R 2 0 2 0 2 CONTENTS PENCNWC EAST, LLANDISSILIO Section 1 Introduction 4 Section 2 Site description 6 Section 3 Planning context 7 Section 4 Opportunities and constraints 9 Section 5 Design evolution 10 Section 6 Supporting documents 11 STATEMENT Section 7 Planning policy review 12 Section 8 Proposed development 16 A C CE S S & Section 9 Appraisal 20 Section 10 Conclusion 23 DE S I G N N O VE M BE R 2 0 2 0 3 PENCNWC EAST, LLANDISSILIO INTRODUCTION 1.1 This Planning, Design and Access Statement (PDAS) has 1.5 The submitted Planning, Design and Access Statement been prepared on behalf of Wales and West Housing adheres to guidance embodied in the Welsh Government Association to accompany a planning application for the publication, Design and Access Statements in Wales, proposed demolition of existing buildings and residential published in June 2017. redevelopment and associated works at Pencnwc East, Llandissilio, Clynderwen. Vision and Brief 1.6 The vision for the proposal at Pencnwc East is to create a 1.2 The purpose of a Planning, Design & Access Statement residential development that incorporates the best facets of (DAS) is to provide a clear and logical document to design whilst accommodating 20no. affordable dwellings, demonstrate and explain the various facets of design and access, parking, landscaping and sustainable drainage access in relation to the site and to appraise the proposed features. The proposals highlight how the development will development against relevant planning policies. It also make use of a previously developed site which is no longer presents the details of the planning application in a way that required. The scheme can therefore enhance the character can be read both by professionals and the public. and appearance of the surrounding area by redeveloping the site to provide a contemporary, yet sympathetic 1.3 The diagram, right, extracted from Planning Policy Wales, development. The proposal, through its design and layout summarises the five objectives of good design that should will provide a distinctive sense of place for occupants and STATEMENT be taken into account when preparing a DAS. The circular visitors whilst acknowledging and complimenting the nature of the diagram represents the equal weightings that existing residential context within Llandissillio. need to be given to each of the 5 Objectives of Good Design: Access; Movement; Character; Environmental 1.7 The brief for the project has also informed the design A C CE S S Sustainability and Community Safety. process which is to deliver a layout that accommodates & 20no. dwellings whilst incorporating on site features, SuDS 1.4 Accordingly, the statement is subdivided into ten elements and bat mitigation and meeting standards set by sections, commencing with this introductory chapter in this Pembrokeshire County Council. It is considered that these section which includes the brief and vision. Section 2 aims have been achieved through the development of the provides a brief overview of the site context and its proposed layout that will provide much needed residential DE S I G N surroundings. Section 3 provides a summary of the site’s development and affordable housing in Pembrokeshire. planning context whilst Section 4 discusses the opportunities and constraints of the site. Section 5 1.8 The provision of good quality housing will provide summarises how the design has developed from the initial occupants with a desirable and sustainable place to live stages. Section 6 summarises the supporting documents whilst improving their health and wellbeing which are that accompany the application whilst Section 7 provides the fundamental milestones in achieving the goals of the Well- relevant national and local planning policy context. Section 8 being of Future Generations (Wales) Act adopted by the sets out the proposal and explores the relevant design and Welsh Government in 2015. This is dealt with in more detail access facets associated with the application followed by in Section 5 of this DAS. Section 9 appraises the development against relevant policies. The document then concludes under Section 10 1.9 As such the design and vision for the site has been at the which summarises the key themes running through the centre of the design proposals and has informed the report, justifying that the proposed development should be evolution of the site layout. granted planning permission. N O VE M BE R 2 0 2 0 4 PENCNWC EAST, LLANDISSILIO SITE IN LOCAL CONTEXT STATEMENT SITE LOCATION PLAN A C CE S S & DE S I G N N O VE M BE R 2 0 2 0 5 PENCNWC EAST, LLANDISSILIO SITE DESCRIPTION Site Location busines which operates from a single storey red brick linier 2.9 The nearby town of Narberth provides all amenities as well 2.1 Pencnwc East is located adjacent to the A478, within the building under a pitched roof with black plastic guttering, as a Primary School. Crymych (14Km to the North) also village of Llandissilio and approximately 7km north of the benefitting from a modern Upvc glass fronted street scene. provides a primary and secondary school and a leisure centre. small town of Narberth. The site is centred on grid co- The business is a local, family run business which was ordinates X: 212141, Y: 221650. Within 2km in all directions are established in 1976 and solely trades from the village of Residential Context small woodlands (including ancient woodland) and in relation Llandisilio. 2.10 Heol Y Llan properties are semi-detached or terraced two to watercourses, the Afon Rhydbennau is 630m to the east, the storey dwellings with slated pitched roofs, roughcast painted Afon Rhyd y Bil is 1.6km to the north and the Eastern Cleddau 2.6 Access into the site is achieved from the A487 with two external walls and white Upvc doors & windows. The road River is 1.1km to the west. agricultural gates providing vehicular access from the road, facing/front elevations all have either a canopy of enclosed one adjacent to the dwelling and the other, a more recent entrance porch. Site Features access road, provided to the south of the agricultural 2.2 The application site is a rectangular parcel of land outbuildings. The access to the field paddock is currently 2.11 Maes Y Bryn offers a mixture of detached bungalows to comprising of disused farm buildings, fronting onto the A487 open to the pedestrian footpath along the A487. A further the rear and traditional two storey semi-detached properties as well as car parking areas and agricultural yards, a parcel of field gate is attained along the site’s southern boundary, to the front adjoining the A478. The finishes are similar neutral grassland with hedgerow, together with patches of tall providing access to the agricultural fields to the east of the finishing materials as Heol Y Llan and all properties are ruderals and non-native shrubs. site. The A478 is the principal route (north / south) through provided with private off-street parking with a 1.8m wide mid-Pembrokeshire and ties up with the A487 coastal trunk footpath both sides of access road. STATEMENT 2.3 The site measures approximately 0.20ha and falls to south road in Cardigan. east with an approximate height difference of 5m between the 2.12 Adjacent is an example of a typical type of Llandissilio northern and southern boundary. The existing Pencnwc Surroundings dwelling with slated roof, smooth painted render and which farmstead comprises of the two-storey road frontage dwelling 2.7 The village has a mixture of lineal developed dwellings Upvc doors & windows. A C CE S S as well as a combination of old single storey stone adjacent to the A478 public highway and two cul-de-sac & outbuildings and taller, more recent corrugated iron developments of Heol Y Llan to the north and Maes Y Bryn agricultural sheds to the south. A small square area of to the south. Immediately adjacent to the site to the south unmanaged, former garden is present directly behind the there is a row of residential properties individually accessed dwelling house with a narrow section of agriculturally off the main public highway with the Heol Y Llan improved grassland further east, running to the rear of the development to the north west. Also in this direction is the DE S I G N farmstead buildings. There is no clear eastern boundary to the Llandissilio War Memorial which is a Grade II listed structure, site as it comprises of the wider agricultural field parcel which noted for its well-detailed Celtic Revival cross and for extends to the east from the main road through Llandissilio. historical interest as a Great War memorial. 2.4 The southern site boundary comprises a paddock 2.8 A children’s play area and playing fields, two bus stops grassland bounded on two sides by mature hedgerow (east (route 430 - Cardigan-Narberth), two public houses, a village and south).